Four years ago a 16.6 ha coastal strip running alongside Whangaimoana Beach at Palliser Bay was covenanted with the Trust. Local residents, Alastair Sutherland and Sarah Barton, were given permission by Mr Prickett to establish a care group with Greater Wellington Regional Council to carry out restoration work at the site. The group and many local volunteers continue to work with new owners, the Warren family.

In 1993 the New Zealand Government returned a 20 ha block of land at Matakataki-a-Kupe/Cape Palliser to Ngati Hinewaka. Shortly after the return of the land, Ngati Hinewaka covenanted three blocks that together protect 800 ha of wild, rocky coastal habitat, regenerating bush and the remains of pa sites and middens that provide evidence of some of the earliest human habitation in New Zealand.

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